Applanix L2C Ready GPS Boards

RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO -- Applanix announces that it is now shipping L2C ready L1/L2 GPS receivers in its Position and Orientation System (POS) products. The POS products are used as a component for the company's air, land, and marine integrated inertial/GPS geospatial solutions. The new GPS receivers have been built with the future capabilities of GPS in mind, allowing L2C functionality to be activated via a simple in-field feature upgrade. Users can now be ready to take full advantage of the L2C capabilities when available, without the need to invest in additional hardware.

Anticipating the additional workload of more complex signals during
acquisition and tracking, the L2C capable receivers contain hardware and
firmware to support the longer codes of the new GPS signal format. The
L2C GPS signal has been designed for civilian use, and offers a stronger
and more robust carrier phase differential solution for precise RTK
positioning than current generation codeless L2 can provide. Used in
conjunction with the original L1 GPS carrier signal, ionosphere delay
and other distortions become more correctible, resulting in greater
position, navigation and timing accuracy, and reliability. The L2C GPS
signal will also offer better L2 signal to noise ratios because
receivers can track the L2C code directly, and makes it easier to
resolve and dramatically reduce multipath effects (incorrect position
readings resulting from signal reflections).

"After almost 30 years with GPS navigation satellites overhead, the
world has become very comfortable with the technology and now seeks to
explore new levels of precision," said Steven Woolven, President of
Applanix. "Our L2C-ready solution represents a practical approach for
achieving more robust satellite signal tracking and greater positional
accuracy." The first GPS L2C satellite started broadcasting in December
2005. Seven additional satellites are expected to launch over the next
two to three years and a full satellite constellation is expected to be
in operation within seven years.

Applanix Corporation pioneered aided inertial navigation products for
commercial survey applications and has been developing GPS-aided
inertial position and orientation solutions as well as aerial digital
sensor systems for civilian and government applications since 1991.